[Freedos-devel] How to detect if fd #0/#1 are the local console (was Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP)

2004-08-02 Thread Steffen Kaiser
On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Bart Oldeman wrote: OK, I had already promised that BEEP can: + be silent, + print \a,& + do some PC speaker sounding. And the user decide, what to do. The default would be '\a', as it is the most compatible beep at all. no BIOS, no int29, no delay timing, no direct hardwar

[Freedos-devel] (FWD) OpenGEM and FreeDOS

2004-08-02 Thread Jim Hall
Hi. Shane is interested in hearing from anyone who could help build a FreeDOS "core" system that could be used to install/run OpenGEM on a bare hard drive. Is anyone interested? Please email Shane directly. His email is below: Shane M. Coughlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Jim As you know,

[Freedos-devel] (FWD) New KEYB pack

2004-08-02 Thread Jim Hall
Henrique Peron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tried to email this to the lists, but it bounced back at him as unsendable. So he asked me to fwd it for him: Hello all, this is to announce KPWIN - the KEYB codepage pack for Windows, v1.0. It provides a Windows version of all the layouts already available

[Freedos-devel] Mirror update

2004-08-02 Thread Jim Hall
Since the FreeDOS news admin has moved to SourceForge, I've moved the FreeDOS html news archive to a local (non-mirrored) directory on the FreeDOS.org site. If you run a mirror site, and you're concerned about space, you may want to delete your '/freedos' tree and re-mirror. -jh -- __

Re: [Freedos-devel] How to detect if fd #0/#1 are the local console (was Re: [Freedos-devel] BEEP)

2004-08-02 Thread Aitor Santamaría Merino
Hi, Steffen Kaiser escribió: Til this time there had be no suggestion to overcome the requirement about how to detect if: 1) FreeCOM's input comes from the local keyboard (in opposite to FreeCOM MUST use the file descriptor #0 or the "read from stdin" DOS APIs) and 2) FreeCOM's output goes to